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In Canada

Family practice in Brantford took a long time to recover from that shirt

Smallpox eradication scheme

My team leader, Kartik, announcing the reward for identifying a case of smallpox. Munshiganj, Bangladesh. It is now 30 years since Smallpox Zero was announced

The Taj Mahal

From Shah Jahan's prison cell he could see his wife's tomb; talk about sad

Cycling, Uganda style

The police did not think it funny. But we made some money for Leonard Cheshire in Uganda

Trainers

Delhi, 1991, short course in public health

Lon Las trail

One of the hazards of riding from North to South Wales for charity. We were accompanied by 14 cops, some of them fair(!), who spent quite a lot of time trying to set off speed cameras on their bikes

Health promotion training

Moldova, second tour. Moldova is, sadly, a major wine making and tobacco growing area. Not the easiest place to push healthy living

Aida, 2008

Not very medical, but we did get to invent a new, ancient religion, if you see what I mean

Cuba

All downhill, they said. But it was the only place we have cycled on the motorway. All to a Salsa beat

My babies home for Christmas 2011


 

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